Quality of Life and Religious Coping in Women with Breast Cancer

For decades the surgical treatment of choice for breast cancer in Romanian hospitals has been radical mastectomy. Nowadays the preferred method of treatment for many women with early breast cancer is conservative surgery. Fifty seven breast cancer patients were surveyed to assess the differences in quality of life and explore the importance of religious coping in their recovery. Findings show an important prevalence of religious coping among patients with breast cancer and a lower quality of life for patients who underwent conservative surgery. Further attention needs to be paid to the impact of different types of surgical treatments on patients’ quality of life.